Dexamethasone-induced cell death is restricted to specific molecular subgroups of multiple myeloma

Charlotte Kervoëlen 1 Emmanuelle Ménoret Patricia Gomez-Bougie 1 Régis Bataille 1 Catherine Godon Séverine Marionneau-Lambot Philippe Moreau 1 Catherine Pellat-Deceunynck 1 Martine Amiot 1
1 CRCNA - Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie / Nantes - Angers
Abstract : Due to its cytotoxic effect in lymphoid cells, dexamethasone is widely used in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). However, only a subset of myeloma patients responds to high-dose dexamethasone. Despite the undeniable anti-myeloma benefits of dexamethasone, significant adverse effects have been reported. We re-evaluate the anti-tumor effect of dexamethasone according to the molecular heterogeneity of MM. We demonstrated that the pro-death effect of dexamethasone is related to the genetic heterogeneity of MM because sensitive cell lines were restricted to MAF and MMSET signature subgroups, whereas all CCND1 cell lines (n = 10) were resistant to dexamethasone. We demonstrated that the glucocorticoid receptor expression was an important limiting factor for dexamethasone-induced cell death and we found a correlation between glucocorticoid receptor levels and the induction of glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper (GILZ) under dexamethasone treatment. By silencing GILZ, we next demonstrated that GILZ is necessary for Dex induced apoptosis while triggering an imbalance between anti- and pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins. Finally, the heterogeneity of the dexamethasone response was further confirmed in vivo using myeloma xenograft models. Our findings suggested that the effect of dexamethasone should be re-evaluated within molecular subgroups of myeloma patients to improve its efficacy and reduce its adverse effects.
Keywords : Bim GILZ glucocorticoid glucocorticoid receptor multiple myeloma
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Charlotte Kervoëlen, Emmanuelle Ménoret, Patricia Gomez-Bougie, Régis Bataille, Catherine Godon, et al.. Dexamethasone-induced cell death is restricted to specific molecular subgroups of multiple myeloma. Oncotarget, Impact journals, 2015, 6 (29), ⟨10.18632/oncotarget.4616⟩. ⟨inserm-01817581⟩

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